Tulane and NFL standout Lionel Washington, Baton
Rouge-Catholic High School cross country and track coach Pete Boudreaux, and
Olympic gold medalist Venus Lacy, who helped Louisiana Tech win the 1988
women's basketball national championship, are also in the Hall's 2014 induction
class. Trailblazing basketball coach Beryl Shipley, who guided the UL-Lafayette
Ragin' Cajuns to national prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and legendary
Cottonport football player, coach and official Richard "Moon" Ducote will be honored
posthumously.

Their selection was announced late Saturday. They will be
officially enshrined Saturday, June 21, in Natchitoches to culminate the 2014 Louisiana
Sports Hall of Fame induction celebration June 19-21.

The 2014 induction class will be showcased in the Louisiana
Sports Hall of Fame Museum, operated by the Louisiana State Museum system in a
partnership with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. The two-story, 27,500-square foot structure faces Cane River Lake in the National
Historic Landmark District of Natchitoches and has garnered worldwide
architectural acclaim and rave reviews for its contents since its grand opening
during the 2013 Hall of Fame induction weekend.

Benson has been at the forefront of sports in New Orleans and Louisiana for nearly 30 years, since buying the Saints in 1985 and quickly transforming a moribund franchise into a playoff team, including the Super Bowl XLIV triumph. In March 2012, he bought the NBA's franchise in New Orleans and the Pelicans have emerged as one of the league's most exciting young teams in 2013-14.

Faneca, a two-time All-America offensive lineman at LSU in
1996-97, was chosen for nine straight Pro Bowls as a guard during 13 NFL
seasons with Pittsburgh (helping the Steelers win Super Bowl XL), New York and
Arizona. Faneca started 201 of his 206
NFL games and earned spots on the Steelers' 75th anniversary team in
2007, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame's All-2000s Team.

Reynolds, a Bastrop native who played at Monroe's Ouachita
Christian High School, pitched for 13 major-league seasons for Houston, Atlanta
and Arizona, and played in the 2000 All-Star Game. He won 114 games, 103 with Houston from 1992 to 2002,
winning 16 games twice and going a career-best 19-8 in 1998.

Tulane co-defensive coordinator Lionel Washington

Washington, a cornerback at Tulane from 1979-82, had a productive
15-year NFL career with three teams (Cardinals, Raiders, Broncos), intercepting
37 passes. He played in 204 games,
starting 165, with a career-high eight pickoffs with the St. Louis Cardinals in
1985 and at least one interception in 13 of his 15 seasons. Washington, later
an assistant coach with the NFL's Green Bay Packers, is co-defensive
coordinator at Tulane.

Boudreaux has coached 39 state championship teams and
another 21 state runner-up squads in cross country, indoor and outdoor track
and field. Sixteen of the state titles and 10 runner-up finishes have been in
cross country. His track teams at Catholic have had the four best scores in
Class 5A state meets, and the Bears' cross country teams have the three best
score posted in state championships.

Lacy is the career scoring leader (20 points per game) for
the Lady Techsters. A center on Tech's 1988 NCAA championship team, she won the
1990 national Player of the Year award from the U.S. Basketball Writers
Association and ended her career playing for the 1996 USA Olympic gold
medalists then with two WNBA seasons in New York.

Shipley won 70 percent of his games in 16 seasons coaching
at UL-Lafayette, guiding the Cajuns to six Top 20 rankings the last two years
in the major college polls. He was the first coach at a predominantly white
state university in the Deep South to award scholarships to black
student-athletes, a groundbreaking move during the 1960s. Shipley's later teams
were among the highest-scoring in the country.

Ducote, a football legend at Auburn and in the early days of
pro football was compared to the great Jim Thorpe by Chicago Bears owner and
coach George Halas, and was later an assistant football coach and head
basketball coach at LSU. An end, halfback and fullback at Auburn, he was also a
sensational kicker, booting long field goals to beat Georgia (48 yards) and
Vanderbilt (51 yards). Iconic coach Pop
Warner said he had never seen a better player.

The eight new inductees will raise the total of Hall of Fame
members to 310 competitors honored since the first induction class -- baseball's Mel Ott, world champion boxer Tony
Canzoneri and LSU football great Gaynell Tinsley -- were enshrined in 1959
after their election a year earlier.

The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame includes 16 Pro Football
Hall of Fame members, 18 Olympic medalists (10 gold medal winners), nine
members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, seven of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players,
six Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, 34 College Football Hall of Fame members, five
National High School Hall of Fame enshrines, jockeys with a combined 12 Triple
Crown victories, six world boxing champions, seven Women's Basketball Hall of
Fame enshrinees, seven College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, seven College Basketball Hall of Fame
members, four NBA Finals MVPs and two Super Bowl MVPs.

The 2014 Induction Celebration will kick off Thursday, June
19 with the press conference and reception. It includes three receptions, a
youth sports clinic, and a Friday, June 20 celebrity pro-am golf scramble at
Oak Wing Golf Course in Alexandria. Tickets for the Induction Dinner and
Ceremonies, and golf entries, will go on sale this spring through the LaSportsHall.com website.

Also to be honored at the event will be two other Hall of
Fame inductees, the winner of the 2014 Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership
Award and the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Service Award in Sports
Journalism presented by the LSWA. Those award recipients will be announced in January.

Adding to the 302 sports competitors currently enshrined, 12
winners of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership award and 53 recipients
of the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism, there are 367 current members of the Hall of
Fame.

The 2014 induction celebration weekend will be hosted by the Louisiana Sports Hall of
Fame Foundation, the support organization for the Hall of Fame. The LSHOF
Foundation was established as a 501 c 3 non-profit entity in 1975 and is
governed by a statewide board of directors. For information on
sponsorship opportunities, contact Foundation President/CEO Lisa Babin at 318-458-0166 or lisababin@LaSportsHall.com. Standard and customized sponsorships are available.

BIOS

TOM BENSON, sports administrator

Known for his ownership of the New Orleans Saints since 1985, which saved the NFL franchise from perhaps moving to Jacksonville, Fla., the
New Orleans native has been at the forefront of sports in the Crescent City for
nearly 30 years. In 2012, he became owner/chairman of the board of both of New
Orleans' major league sports teams when he purchased the NBA's New Orleans
franchise. In 1985, Benson bought the Saints from John Mecom and quickly hired
Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Finks as general manager and Jim Mora as head
coach, who two years later helped deliver the club's first winning season and
playoff appearance since its inception in 1967. He also presided over the
team's first division title (1991), first playoff victory (2000) and first NFL
title (2009) after the Saints took a 31-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts in
Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7, 2010. He has also been instrumental in helping bring
five Super Bowls to the city, including Super Bowl XLVII which was played on
Feb. 5, 2013. Benson flirted with moving the Saints to San Antonio after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 but the franchise remained in New Orleans. He also owned and operated the New Orleans VooDoo of the Arena
Football League from 2002-08 and in March 2012 paid $338 million to buy the NBA's New Orleans Hornets. Benson and his wife,
Gayle, are active philanthropically in New Orleans. He has been a member of
numerous NFL committees as an owner, including three stints as chairman of the
powerful Finance Committee. A World War II veteran who served in the Navy,
Benson was born in 1927 in New Orleans.

PETE
BOUDREAUX, high school coach

Boudreaux
has been head track coach at his alma mater, Catholic High-Baton Rouge, since
1968 and also served as athletic director through 2011. In the early 1970s, he
added head cross country coach to his list of duties. His teams have won 39
state titles (13 outdoor, 10 indoor, 16 cross country through 2013). His teams
also finished as the state runner-up 10 times at cross country, seven in
outdoor track and four in indoor track. Boudreaux's track teams have recorded
the four highest (best) scores ever by a championship team in Class 5A track
and field and the three lowest (best) scores recorded in 5A cross country. His
2010 track team scored a record 104 points to set the current mark, while the
2009 team had 101 points. The Bears' 2009 cross country team had the low
winning score of 33 points. Boudreaux's 1991 squads became Louisiana's first to
sweep cross country, indoor track and outdoor track titles in the same school
year. His 2008-09 and 2009-10 squads repeated that feat, becoming the first
school to do it two years in a row. Boudreaux was inducted into the Louisiana
High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and served as president of the
Louisiana High School Coaches Association in 1981. He has received state Coach
of the Year honors 14 times and regional honors four times. In 2010, Boudreaux
was voted the national high school coach of the year for boys track by USA
Track & Field. He has also worked as an official at SEC and Big 12 track
and field championships and at the Olympic Trials. In 2002, Boudreaux was
co-meet director for the NCAA Championships. He graduated from Catholic High in
1959 and has spent his entire coaching career at his alma mater.

RICHARD
"MOON" DUCOTE, football

A
football legend at Auburn and in the early days of pro football, Ducote was a
Cottonport native who later coached at LSU and Loyola and became a highly
regarded football official. At Auburn from 1915-17, he played end, halfback and
fullback and was a sensational kicker, making game-winning field goals of 48
and 51 yards to beat Georgia and Vanderbilt. In 1918, he provided all the
scoring for the Great Lakes Cleveland Naval Reserves team to a 10-9 upset of
Pop Warner's mighty Pitt team, unbeaten for three years and the greatest
collegiate team of the era. Warner said he had never seen a better player. A
Cleveland sports writer wrote Ducote "simply battered the life out of the Pitt
defense and ... must be rated as one of the greatest backs of all time."
Football legend George Halas compared him to Jim Thorpe and other greats of the
early days of pro football in a 1971 letter. He served as an assistant football
coach at LSU for two years and was head basketball coach for one season, later
becoming athletic director at Loyola. He was on the officiating crew for the
1935 Rose Bowl game pitting Alabama against Stanford. He died in 1939.

ALAN
FANECA, football

One
of LSU's all-time great offensive linemen from 1995-97, Faneca was a
second-team All-American pick in 1996 and a first-teamer in 1997 when he was a
finalist for the Outland Trophy as the nation's top lineman. A guard who
overcame epilepsy, he started his final 36 college games and allowed only one
sack as a junior before declaring for the NFL draft. He was chosen in the first
round with the 26th overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers and went on to play
10 years with them, two with the New York Jets and one with the Arizona
Cardinals. He was voted to nine consecutive Pro Bowls (2001-09) and was a
six-time Associated Press All-Pro first-team pick (2001-02, 2004-07). He started
201 of 206 games he appeared in and started all 16 games in his final nine
seasons in the league. He played on the Steelers team that won Super Bowl XL
and helped spring Willie Parker for a 75-yard TD run, the longest run in Super
Bowl history, on the second play of the second half to give Pittsburgh a 14-3
lead over the Seattle Seahawks. He was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's
All-2000s team and was chosen to the Steelers' 75th anniversary all-time team
in 2007. Faneca does extensive charitable work with the Epilepsy Foundation of
America. Born 12-7-1976 in New Orleans.

VENUS
LACY, women's basketball

A
star center for the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team from
1988-1990, Lacy was twice named as the Player of the Year for both the American
South Conference and state of Louisiana.
She played on the 1996 U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal after
starting at center on Tech's 1988 national championship team, the last
Techsters' team to capture an NCAA title. Lacy was a 1990 Kodak All-American
and was also named the national Player of the Year by the United States Basketball
Writers Association. She is No. 1 in scoring average (20.0) in Tech history and
is also is in the top five for career points (2,004), field goals made (793),
field goals attempted (1,125) and blocked shots (164). She played in the old
ABL, Europe and spent two seasons with the New York Liberty of the WNBA before
retiring in 1998. Born 2-9-67 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

SHANE
REYNOLDS, baseball

A
Bastrop native who attended Ouachita Christian in Monroe and the University of
Texas, Reynolds was one of the top pitchers in the National League and Houston
Astros' ace in the mid- to late-1990s after being selected in the third
round of the 1989 draft. He pitched 13 seasons in the majors and had a 114-96
career record with the Astros (1992-2002),
with whom he earned multiple Opening Day starts, Atlanta Braves (2003) and
Arizona Diamondbacks (2004). He was 103-86 with the Astros, making the 2000 All-Star
game. He led the NL in both 1998 and '99
with 35 starts both of those seasons.
Reynolds won 10 or more games six times in his career, with his best
season coming in 1998 when he was 19-8 with a 3.51 ERA and 209 strikeouts. He also won 16 games in 1996 and '99 and
finished in the top 10 in strikeouts five times between 1994-99. Reynolds could also handle the bat for a
pitcher, posting a .141 career average with five homers. His work ethic was
compared to Nolan Ryan by longtime Astros trainer Dr. Gene Coleman. Born 3/26/68 in Bastrop.

BERYL
SHIPLEY, basketball coach

Shipley
guided the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now UL-Lafayette) to national
basketball prominence and was the first coach at a predominantly white state
college in the Deep South to give scholarships to black student-athletes.
He was the Ragin' Cajuns' coach from 1957-73 and his teams were 296-127
(.700). He had only one losing season in 16 years. USL finished in the
national Top 20 in each of his last six seasons - the first four in the college
division polls, the last two in Division I. He was the Gulf States
Conference Coach of the Year four times and Coach of the Year in the Southland
Conference once. With stars like Hall of Fame member Bo Lamar, Roy Ebron
and Marvin Winkler on his teams, USL went 19-5, 20-5, 16-10, 25-4 and 24-5 in
his last five seasons. The final two teams reached were rated in the
national Top 10 and reached the NCAA Division I Tournament Sweet 16, but after
the 1972-73 season, the USL program was disbanded for a couple of years because
of alleged NCAA rules violations and USL's legal challenge to the NCAA's
authority. That ended Shipley's college coaching career. He briefly was
head coach of the San Diego team in the ABA. He is in the Louisiana Basketball
Hall of Fame.

LIONEL
WASHINGTON, football

A
former Tulane cornerback from 1979-82 and a fourth-round draft pick of the St.
Louis Cardinals in 1985, Washington carved out a productive 15-year NFL career
with the Cardinals, L.A./Oakland Raiders and Denver Broncos. Playing in 204
games and starting 165 during his career, he intercepted 37 passes and returned
four for touchdowns. He had a career-high eight interceptions as a rookie in
1983 and picked off at least three passes five times in his career. Washington
also had at least one interception in 13 of his 15 seasons. The Lutcher native coached
with the Green Bay Packers and just ended his second season as co-defensive
coordinator at Tulane, helping the Green Wave to a New Orleans Bowl bid in 2013.
Born Oct. 21, 1960.